I would like to ask your assistance in getting the word out about ISRACAMPUS.org.il, which replaces Israel Academia Monitor (now defunct) as an improved, cleaner and meaner, watchdog web site that exposes and monitors Israel’s Academic Fifth Column.
ISRACAMPUS is an improved, professionally-edited web site that replaces the older web site (which suffered from amateurish and inept editing). It starts afresh in a new cyber-home, and contains a number of new features. These include “ALEF Watch,” a segment of the web site that follows the anti-Israel shenanigans disseminated via the University of Haifa on the ALEF chat list, a list that includes open anti-Semites, jihadists, and even some Neo-Nazis. The new ISRACAMPUS also features “Van Leer Watch,” which follows and exposes the anti-Israel radicalism at the supposedly academic “think tank,” Van Leer Institute. And don’t miss the new “Shmootz Corner,” which will feature unusually candid anti-Semitic and venomously anti-Israel remarks by Israeli academics. Take a look for yourself, at http://www.isracampus.org.il
I would like to ask your help in passing the word getting the news out! Can you tell members of chat lists in which you are a member about the new web address? Can you print out the statement below and hang it on bulletin boards, cyber and otherwise, at your place of work, in your synagogue or school, etc.? Can you tell your local Jewish weekly about us and pass on the message below? Better yet, can you send US all information you have on the seditious activities of Israeli academic radicals and extremists?
ISRACAMPUS can be contacted at:
IsraCampus.org
POB 6652
Haifa
Israel
A specter is haunting the Israeli Academic “Post-Zionist” extremists in Israel, and it is ISRACAMPUS (www.isracampus.co.il). Modeled in part on “Campus Watch” in North America, ISRACAMPUS monitors and exposes the anti-Israel (and sometimes anti-Semitic) political activities, writings, and pronouncements of Israel’s far-leftist academic extremists. Israeli universities contain hundreds of faculty members who are active in promoting boycotts of Israel, in organizing army soldiers for mutiny and refusal to serve, in promoting law breaking, and in collaborating with anti-Israel groups attempting to delegitimize Israel as a fascist, terrorist, racist, apartheid entity. Students, professors, donors, alumni, journalists and others participate in ISRACAMPUS and help it gather materials.
Until ISRACAMPUS came upon the scene, few in Israel and fewer still outside Israel were aware of the anti-Israel activities of these Israeli academic radicals. That is now changing. The past two years, when there were numerous attempts to adopt boycott of Israel resolutions in the UK, Canada, in the US, and elsewhere, it was ISRACAMPUS that exposed the fact that most of these resolutions have Israeli academic initiators and sponsors, faculty members who draw salaries paid for by the Israeli taxpayer, calling on anti-Semites all over the wor ld to boycott Israel. The Israeli media and the Jewish press around the world are increasingly discussing and reporting about the shenanigans of “Israel’s Academic Fifth Column.”
While its web site has been in operation for only a relatively short period, the impact of ISRACAMPUS is already being widely felt. A growing number of reports are appearing in the mainstream media about Israel’s academic extremists, “New Historians,” and “Post-Zionists.” Israel’s Channel One television channel recently devoted a full hour to Israeli academic extremists and their role in promoting boycotts of Israel. Israel’s Maariv daily has been particularly courageous in condemning these things. Countless blogs cite and link to our web site. Israeli university officials are being faced with growing calls to enforce academic standards and put a stop to the political biases operating in campus hiring and promotion. Classroom indoctrination and one-sided anti-Israel courses taught by extremists are increasingly being exposed and triggering public outrage.
And the extremists are themselves growing wary. While no one is calling for restricting academic freedom and freedom of expression, even for the worst anti-Israel academic radicals , nevertheless these folks are feeling pressure as their activities are exposed to the sunshine. They know someone is looking over their shoulders. Over the past two years there has been a dramatic drop in the number of Israeli radical academics turning out anti-Israel propaganda for Bash-Israel organizations and web sites. While anti-Israel petitions, containing the names of hundreds of Israel academics, appeared in the past every few weeks on the internet, almost nothing of this sort has been initiated more recently. And in radical political “chat rooms” Israeli academic extremists are increasingly complaining about the fact that ISRACAMPUS is exposing what they write and do.
It is getting harder for Israeli university administrations to turn a blind eye to on-campus politicization, classroom indoctrination, and subordination of hiring and promotion to politically biased decision making. People a re asking campus officers tough questions about how it is that so many Israel haters with insipid, sometimes downright embarrassing, academic records are being hired and promoted as faculty members and using their podium to demonize their own country. Voices expressing outrage against one-sided indoctrination, such as in courses purportedly about “the occupation,” are growing.
ISRACAMPUS is the best way to “keep Israeli universities honest,” and to ensure that their faculty engage in research and educating, rather than in Israel-bashing, sedition, and anti-Zionist political propagandizing.
And ISRACAMPUS needs your help to stay in operation!
WARNING: This video contains some strong language and graphic elements. It is intended for a mature audience.
Each day, I see events unfolding around the globe that cause me concern. Yet most of the people I encounter seem to be oblivious, or at best, only peripherally aware of the grave threats facing our nation - and civilization as a whole.
Our enemies are counting on our short attention spans, our over-confidence and our stubborn complacency to keep the blinders on our eyes until it’s too late.
Each day, the future of freedom and democracy in Europe seems bleaker… and the United States is already taking steps down the same path.
1389 Blog has posted this video because it makes many vital points - especially about the failure of the US and other western nations to acknowledge, investigate, and respond to suspicious incidents.
That said, we vehemently disagree with George W’s handling of foreign policy - though not for the same reasons as the liberals disagree with it. We claim - and we have repeatedly provided the facts to back up this claim - that GWB has, all too often, appeased jihadists when he should have stood against them.
BELOW is the full statement from insurgent group the Jihad and Reform Front posted on a propaganda website on December 5, 2007, translated from Arabic for NEWS.com.au.
Australia – a new ally fleeing like a cornered mouse
In the name of God All-Merciful, All-Compassionate
“They will not fight against you all together unless it is in fortified villages or behind walls, their valour is great among themselves; you think them whole, but their hearts are scattered because they are an irrational people”. (The Mustering: 14)
Praise God the guide of clouds, revealer of the book and defeater of parties, prayers and peace to the maternal Prophet, to kin and friends, to beloved followers and to those who follow them and walk their path to judgment day….
For some weeks a controversy rages between the counter-jihadis of Little Green Footballs and a number of Islam-critical top bloggers. Your reporter went into the battle zone of this controversy to discover a sinister plot, and the explanation why this matter went completely out of control.
On first glance the issue seems to be whether or not some European parties are fascist or not, notably Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Both parties sent representatives to the anti-Islam conference in Brussels, where nearly all relevant players were present. This was not what LGF liked, being tipped off by Swedish anti-fascists.
But further investigation proved there is more going on. The debate went completely out of control: old alliances and long lasting friendships might very well be permanently damaged. How did this come to be?
Because of the Brussels Conference LGF boss Charles Johnson received messages from Europe about the assumed neo-Nazi secret agenda of Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Johnson obviously was flabbergasted. Understandable, because, as many posters said: “If it can be proven that European anti-Islam organizations are allied to fascists, many Americans will step aside from supporting the Euro anti-Islam organizations. An old problem was reborn again. Who doesn’t remember the messages collected by Blokwatch (and partly fabricated by them) about the roots of Flemish nationalism, who, as is commonly known, en masse choose to support the Nazis during WW2, in the hope of gaining independence after the war. Blokwatch also collected a lot of material about contacts between Vlaams Blok and questionable neo-Nazi organisation and persons. A similar file was collected about Sverigedemokraterna. The Swedes had some members in their ranks who maintained similar contacts with questionable clubs and persons.
In the following weeks many bloggers pointed Johnson to the fact that most of the “evidence” was razor thin, could be easily countered and was often manipulated. Then something important happened. Every reasonable man with sufficient understanding of politics will understand the vulnerable position of the international anti-Islam movement, and will know he has to work carefully and with restriction. Not so on LGF. Every critical remark about the “evidence” or suggestion of making things up were tarred as fascists or VB apologists. Even the most reasonable posters were scolded and suspected. Johnson was not capable of keeping the situation under control. Far from it: he was tempted by a herd of Lizards (which is how the posters on LGF call themselves) to estrange himself even more from such reputable bloggers as Fjordman, the folks of Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal.
In the ongoing debate a Norwegian antifascist, Øyvind Strømmen, showed up. He wrote the book “Eurofascism”. Several times Charles Johnson published parts of this book, all of them accusations aimed at Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Of course, all of this was simply more of the same. In my opinion, it was a major error of Charles Johnson to quote from this book. Not just because the material was mainly irrelevant; to the contrary. Such accusations should always be taken seriously. But because he refused to call for a time-out or discuss matters with the (at that time) friends and allied bloggers, Johnson hanged himself with his, or better phrased, this evidence. That evidence became quickly irrelevant; matters had gone too far already. Apparently Charles Johnson had released the genie out of the bottle and had no idea how to get it back again. He had few options but to keep walking the path he made himself.
Now the smoke has cleared, mainly because Johnson’s opponents had the wisdom not to overreact we can make up the balance sheet. Those who followed the debates have seen the resentful tone that many Lizards used. LGF is known as very much pro-Israel, which really is a point to their benefit. It’s no surprise many Shoah survivors or descendants from them are amongst the Lizards, and they turned themselves away from the Euro movement. Add to this the deep suspicion many Americans hold about Europe, and European history, and we have the explanations for this debate that went completely out of control. At least, that is what a superficial observer will think.
However, to quote Daniël Belinfante: “there is more going on”. Let’s have a closer look at this gentleman Mr. Øyvind Strømmen. Who is he? A small investigation showed that Mr. Strømmen is member of this club: [listed at ECPR: European Consortium for Political Research]. When we read this list carefully, we find the name and founder of Blokwatch, the “anti-fascist” blog that began the accusations of fascism against Vlaams Belang. This is Bart Spruyt. You will find his name on this list.
But there is more: Mr. Spruyt, a friend of Øyvind Strømmen, did much to internationalize the ‘anti-fascist’ jihad by founding disreputable anarchistic-like clubs such as AFA Netherlands. These chappies are internationally organized. Scandinavia abounds with these little progressive clubs. Perhaps you recall the attempted murder on four SIOE members in Copenhagen, recently? Yes, friends of our friends Spruyt and Strømmen. Those of you who would bear the stench can open a cesspit of extreme left Inquisition. And be surprised of the way these little hysteric clubs work intimately together, internationally.
What are the conclusions of this little investigation? The obvious, of course. LGF has been infiltrated by left wing fanatics, who respect nobody and nothing to achieve their goals. Those who tar everybody fascist who resists, for example, the Islamization of Europe. We are talking here about delusional fanatics who are so utterly convinced of being right (compare them the Baader Meinhof gang) they don’t worry about one victim more or less. They actually became what they fought: merciless fascists. Their current champion: Øyvind Strømmen. The man shows off with his many ‘investigations’, but got his ‘investigation’ directly from Bart Spruyt. I do not doubt this applies to his ‘investigations’ about Sverigedemokraterna as well.
Please draw your own conclusions by reading his own forum. A very weak debater, drawing up smokescreen after smokescreen. All questions that might compromise him will remain unanswered. However, his strategy is clear enough: he wants to uncover the Islam-watchers as fascist fanatics, or at least as their helpers. Practically ALL Islam critics (Bat Ye ‘Or, Oriana, Robert Spencer, Mark Steyn, Fjordman, you just name anyone) have been criticized by him. There can be no doubt at all: Øyvind Strømmen thinks Islamization is a hoax, and Islam critics are mentally ill or (his preference) fascists. And this is supposed to be the source of Johnson? An infamy!
Did Strømmen enter the debate alone? Of course not. I found so much hatred in the ongoing debate that my conclusion is that Charles Johnson not only has a very questionable advisor, but also that the Lizards have been infiltrated. Check it out for yourself. Observe the responses from the Lizards: foaming at the mouth as they blast their ‘fascist’ mantra to your postings. Amongst them are a lot of Europeans who will claim not to be left wing orientated. But also a bunch of Lizards who feed Charles Johnson with a deluge of evidence. Evidence collected for many years by the Strømmens and Spruyts of the world. There is a little bit of good news to report as well. Charles Johnson has put some distance between himself and Strømmen. He repeatedly said that he doesn’t agree with everything Strømmen said or stands for. Hardly possible, as Charles keeps the photo of Oriana prominently on his website. Hopefully he will realize one cannot have it both ways. I called on LGF for a debate. Face to face, for communication of such and important matter by mail will not do. The raid on LGF by Euro extremists makes it crystal clear that we cannot afford to. Only reason can heal the breach. Therefore I suggest we all take responsibility for our own action and take it from there.
The only question remaining is: will Øyvind Strømmen hang Charles Johnson’s scalp on his AFA belt, or will Charles Johnson see reason, and organize a mediation?
Do the Clintons - or someone working on their behalf - also pay “trolls” to disrupt the activities of legitimate bloggers who raise issues that could make the Clintons look bad?
I confess. I never voted for John Howard and his party until Paul Keating gave us “the recession we had to have”. After all, we were a working family, which is what Labor was supposed to be representative of.
Times became tough paying 17% interest on a mortgage, and bringing up (raising) two young children. I had first hand experience of what the Labor party was capable of, and some details are in the link above. Most of the time they put Australia heavily in debt.
In my previous piece I predicted the Kevin Rudd would win. Secretly I hoped I was wrong as all the polls consistently predicted a Rudd landslide and they were correct.
Howard couldn’t put a foot right and Rudd couldn’t put one wrong.
Now all the commentators here and around the world are looking at the entrails. People in overseas countries are divided over why this happened as much as people here are.
I am going to make it easier for you and save you the trouble.
Of course, these are MY opinions and I am merely a citizen, not a political scientist.
John Howard spent almost twelve years as prime Minister. This is quite an achievement. (We do not have 2 fixed terms like in the USA. As long as people want you, you can stay in power).
Kevin Rudd was politically active both in his home state of Queensland as well as federally, but his political experience didn’t come close to Howard’s.
Australia was doing well, “why jump ship”? How did this happen?
Welcome to the newest version of “image politics” Downunder
Kevin Rudd and his party ran a slick and managed campaign and the Howard government never saw it coming. Rudd , his party and the unions had almost twelve years to get their act together and that is exactly what they did.
It became “new and fresh” versus “old and stale”.
Buzzwords like “education revolution”, “Kyoto”, “working families”, “WorkChoices” and more seemed to be subliminally planted in the minds of the electorate.
Most people didn’t fully comprehend what this really meant, and many still don’t.
WorkChoices was a very confusing issue with many people better off as a result of them, and some not.
What the work place laws achieved were very, very low unemployment. They were also designed to limit the power of the trade unions, who in fact, were down to 15% membership at the time of the election. I wonder why??
Climate Change, Global Warming and Kyoto were also not fully understood.
As for “working families”,yes it sounds good, but unless you are retired you are part of a working family, even if you are a multi-millionaire like Kevin Rudd’s wife, Therese Rein! Somehow this wasn’t noticed by many.
“Education Revolution” essentially meant faster broadband, and a laptop for every child in their last four years of high school. (Almost all children here have computer access both at home and at school. Broadband could be cheaper and a bit faster but that isn’t going to make a child smarter!)
The leaders or agencies behind the Rudd win packaged Labor into the perfect box, and by doing so made the Howard government look very bad.
This was a campaign of slogans and no substance.
Since many voters are lazy, and some want a change for change’s sake, it was too easy.
Add to that the fact that in the past eleven years there was a new generation of younger voters who had no idea what not being able to get a job was like, no idea of high interest rates, and no idea that a government could ruin a country financially, as EX-PM Whitlam had done.
Then there was the media.
Every television station was behind Rudd. Almost every journalist was behind him also. He was given such an easy ride that many Liberal supporters emailed their concerns to all the above. The bias of the media was palpable and frustrating.
Hardly anyone queried a thing he said, yet Liberals were grilled by the media as if they were on trial. They were treated as “almost criminals” by some slick celebrity lawyer. It was rather appalling. I felt the media were out to prove just how powerful they really were, and that is exactly what they did. The price was of no concern: the future of the country really didn’t matter. They wanted Rudd to win at any cost.
I hold many of them responsible and just hope they will grill Rudd should he start to put a foot wrong, and I believe he already has. We shall see…..
I also want to mention the fact that we now have Labor in power in every state, and federally also. This is a first. This cannot be good for democracy. The normal checks and balances have been eroded significantly.
It now appears that John Howard will lose his seat of Bennelong in NSW to Maxine McKew - a former ABC TV anchorwoman whose husband is a powerbroker in the Labor party. . She used to be a typist for the BBC and I know that readers of this ‘blog will immediately know the implications of this. The ABC has never been kind to the Liberal party either. They are unashamedly left-wing.
Many parliamentarians will be out of a job but most will be just fine. Australia is very generous to its politicians.
Although Labor has a large number of seats in parliament, and as I write some are still in doubt, it is sobering to look at the actual number of who voted and how. The Australian Electoral Commission’s Virtual Tally Room, reveals the following:
4,710,134 - Liberal/National Coalition (Howard) 5,373,089 - Australian Labor Party (Rudd)
These figures clearly show that a great many Australians have not turned their backs on Howard or the Coalition. This equates to approximately 47% of the voting population supporting the Coalition.
(I won’t bother with minor parties such as the Greens, although they did help Labor because of our Preferential Voting System.)
Doesn’t seem to make sense, does it? Yet Rudd believes he has a huge mandate. He claims he will govern for all. I can’t see how. He has to repay the unions for their support and $30million contribution to his election. They will want their pound of flesh. He also owes the Greens.
Love him or hate him, Howard’s legacy to Australia is enormous.
He has left the country in good shape and the envy of many others (most recent figures below): Unemployment rate: 4.3 per cent Interest rate: 6.75 per cent Economic growth: 4.3 per cent Stock market: 6390 points Australian dollar: US87.5 cents Surplus 2007 Budget: $10.6 billion Growth in real net national disposable income per head over the past five years: 16 per cent Days lost in industrial strikes/action: Lowest since 1913 National greenhouse gas emissions: 559 million tonnes (2005)
Will Rudd be able to better that? Not in the opinion of this citizen.
“Since I wrote that piece, information has been brought to my attention. I am putting it here because it could affect all of us.I think this guy was the brains behind Labor’s win.
Have a look at the Newt Gingrich clip. I think you may find it quite interesting and relevant. I felt the whole campaign was something we had not seen the like of here before.”
Sen. Rick Santorum speaking at OU 1 hr 0 min 23 sec - Nov 7, 2007 Average rating:(1 rating) Description: Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-Penn) speaking about “The Gathering Storm of the 21st Century: America’s War Against Islamic Fascism”.
Senator Santorum was brought to OU by the OU College Republicans and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), an organization which educates college students in the principles of Western civilization.
Sen. Rick Santorum, is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, established and directs EPPC’s Program to Protect America’s Freedom.
He is writing a book on the “gathering storm” of the 21st century — the challenges posed by radical Islamic fascism and its growing alliances around the world.
Sen. Santorum served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995.
As a United States Senator, he was a champion of efforts to counter the threat of radical Islam, to protect victims of religious persecution, and to promote democracy and religious liberty around the world.
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